111-10-04
Employees.

(A)
Wherever possible, the employee who
provides registration assistance should be the same as the person who gives
assistance in the application process for the regular services that the agency
provides. Each employee assigned to voter registration activities shall be
trained and if requested, shall provide to each such consumer who registers to
vote the same degree of assistance as with regard to the completion of its own
forms.

(B)
Each agency coordinator
shall be responsible for training all employees and other persons assigned by
the agency to work on voter registration activities, or shall arrange for its
employees to receive such training, and shall provide such employees and other
persons with instructional materials on voter registration to be supplied to
each agency by the secretary of state. Each agency shall provide ongoing
training for its employees involved in the agency's voter registration
program.

(C)
Employees and other
persons working on voter assistance activities for an agency shall not:

(1)
Directly or indirectly seek to influence
a consumer's political preference or party enrollment.

(2)
Make any statement to a consumer or take
any action, the purpose or effect of which is, to discourage the consumer from
registering to vote; or

(3)
Make any
statement to a consumer or take any action, the purpose of effect or which is,
to lead the consumer to believe that a decision to register or not to register
has any bearing on the availability of services or benefits.

(D)
Upon receipt of a completed
registration form the employee shall note, in indelible ink, the date such form
was received by the agency. The date notation or stamp shall be of such nature
or placed in a location that maintains as confidential, to any member of the
public who may request and receive access to the registration form, the
identity of the agency through which a person registered.